"Michael Lazzaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > What is the utility of the perl5 behavior: > > \($a,$b,$c) > > meaning > > (\$a, \$b, \$c) > > Do people really do that? I must say, given that it looks *so > obviously* like it instead means [$a,$b,$c], I wonder if attempting to > take a reference to a list should be a compile-time error.
If you make the ListRef an error, can we hyper- the reference operator to achieve the Perl5 behavior?
